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Anime

Anime shows no brand lock-in (top 5 brands take 40% of clicks), but a failed launch gate (market size, growth, or returns) keeps it on the watch list.

Flapen Score

56
Worth a look

Top 17% of 4,240 Küche, Haushalt & Wohnen niches · +8 vs the category median of 48

Market size 29Growth 21Conversion 2Competition 86Returns 80Price range 81Avg price 87Brand share 95Review moat 87Quality gap 53
This niche Category average · 4,240 niches

Is Anime profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon Germany niche tracking, Anime is a €128K/yr Amazon Germany market (5.0M searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 40% of demand. Verdict: Worth a look — 56/100.

Anime: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Worth a look. Search demand moved -8.1% over the last 90 days and 0.1% of searches end in a purchase.

€128K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr13K
Search volume / yr-8.1%5.0M
Conversion rate0.1%
Avg price€19.66

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 40% of demand, so 60% of the market is open.

60%

open market share

Brands · sellers52 · 136
Top-5 product click share29%
Open market60%
Avg brand age32 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.4★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 79 products

Sponsored placement81%
New entrants (1y)29· 3 succeeded
Avg rating4.4★
Avg reviews265

Top Anime products & what they sell for

Every tracked product — its share of the shelf, its review moat, and what it sells for.

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

Clicks spread well past the top 5 (29% combined) — an open shelf where new products get seen.

€0€3K€5K€8K€10K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

52 falling

Sellers

136

Top-5 brand share

40%

Top 20: 77%

Top-5 click share

29%

Top 20: 59%

Open market

56%

  • DEXSHUN11%
  • Funko10%
  • JONA FYNN CARE9%
  • CC COLLECTORS Concept6%
  • HaiZi XiHuan5%
  • Tydeus5%

Anime demand & seasonality

Weekly search volume, with the niche's key stats alongside.

Volume5.0MCVR0.1%Products79Brands52Top 5 Brands40%OOS Rate14.1%Rating4.4★Reviews265Avg BSR#1,047
150K100KSpike '24Black Friday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.6×

Top Anime search terms shoppers use

The exact queries shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth and conversion.

  • anime2.8M/yr
  • anime figuren702K/yr
  • anim448K/yr
  • anime blu ray339K/yr
  • anime merch225K/yr
  • anime figur154K/yr
  • anime deko84K/yr
  • anime filme64K/yr
  • figuren anime25K/yr
  • anime geschenke45K/yr

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Anime

What buyers mention most, as a share of all reviews.

What buyers love

84% of reviews
Qualität insgesamt30%

Super Produkt

Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis11%

Preis Passt

beworben Vs Tatsächliches Produkt8%

Super wie gewohnt

Geschenk Zweck8%

Regal

Gesamtgröße7%

Passt

What buyers complain about

70% of reviews
Qualität insgesamt24%

Müll

Gesamtgröße20%

Es fällt klein aus

beworben Vs Tatsächliches Produkt6%

Grobe Abweichungen von gezeigten Bildern

Stärke4%

Instabiel

Montage/Installation4%

Der Zusammenbau ist kompletter MÜLL

Anime return rate & reasons

Why buyers send it back, as a share of all return requests.

1.7%

Return rate

0%

Fixable by listing

The "fixable" share counts expectation-mismatch reasons — size, look, advertised-vs-actual — that better copy and images address.

1Gesamtgröße
41%
2Defekt Material/Teile
8%
3Qualität insgesamt
8%
4Länge
7%
5Geschenk Zweck
6%

Common Anime questions

The questions sellers ask about this niche, answered from the tracked metrics.

Flapen scores Anime 56/100 on Amazon Germany — Worth a look. The niche generates €128K/yr across 79 tracked products. 3 of 29 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved -8.1% over the last 90 days.
Search demand for Anime on Amazon Germany is steady year-round — the busiest month runs 1.6× the quietest.